The "C" in Celestron now stands for COMMUNIST!

Synta is now the proud owner of Celestron.
They probably bought in because the patents
and technology to make SCT correctors is
essential to reproduce that business in
MAINLAND CHINA! So the next time a tank
rolls over some democracy protester in Tianamen Square,
picture a C8 mounted on the front of it!

"RichA" wrote in message
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Synta is now the proud owner of Celestron.
They probably bought in because the patents
and technology to make SCT correctors is
essential to reproduce that business in
MAINLAND CHINA! So the next time a tank
rolls over some democracy protester in Tianamen Square,
picture a C8 mounted on the front of it!
Start by getting your data right.
Synta is a _Taiwanese_ company, not a Chinese company. They do have a
manufacturing plant in China, and are already the largest manufacturer of
OEM optics in the world.
They helped design some of the newer Celestron scopes over the last few
years, and so there is little 'new' that they are going to find out.
In fact the 'owners', are a seperate company in the US, that is itself
owned by Synta (SW Technology Corporation).

Best Wishes

Rich, there is no point in preaching to the American consumer. They
only care about price ... not quality, not pollution, not worker
rights, not human rights or the fact that giving away the industrial
base will eventually bite them in the ass.

Our American culture, IMHO is too Euro-centric. Most Americans cannot
differentiate between any Asian counry or culture. This is a good
example.

Do not get me wrong, I am as anti-communist as any sensible person.

But do not confuse Taiwan with the PRC. Taiwan is not a communist
country.

Reminds me of when I came back from a trip to Japan and my coworkers
asked me if I saw the Great Wall...sheesh.

Matthew Ota
California Buddahead

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:26:27 -0400, RichA wrote:

Synta is now the proud owner of Celestron. They probably bought in
because the patents
and technology to make SCT correctors is
essential to reproduce that business in MAINLAND CHINA! So the next time
a tank
rolls over some democracy protester in Tianamen Square,
picture a C8 mounted on the front of it!



sniffsniff . . . sniff . . . Hmmm. Smells like Troll Bait!

"Matthew Ota" wrote in message
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Our American culture, IMHO is too Euro-centric. Most Americans cannot
differentiate between any Asian counry or culture. This is a good
example.

Do not get me wrong, I am as anti-communist as any sensible person.

But do not confuse Taiwan with the PRC. Taiwan is not a communist
country.

*Reminds me of when I came back from a trip to Japan and my coworkers
asked me if I saw the Great Wall...sheesh.*

Matthew Ota
California Buddahead

*Umm..there really isn't any excuse for that. Like you said...sheesh.

If I ever had the way to vist Japan, I'd like to see the Neko temple and
bring back a JBT or two.


"Matthew Ota" wrote in message
oups.com...
Our American culture, IMHO is too Euro-centric. Most Americans cannot
differentiate between any Asian counry or culture. This is a good
example.

Do not get me wrong, I am as anti-communist as any sensible person.

But do not confuse Taiwan with the PRC. Taiwan is not a communist
country.

Reminds me of when I came back from a trip to Japan and my coworkers
asked me if I saw the Great Wall...sheesh.

Matthew Ota
California Buddahead

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:54:25 GMT, "Roger Hamlett"
wrote, in part:
"RichA" wrote in message
.. .

Synta is now the proud owner of Celestron.
They probably bought in because the patents
and technology to make SCT correctors is
essential to reproduce that business in
MAINLAND CHINA! So the next time a tank
rolls over some democracy protester in Tianamen Square,
picture a C8 mounted on the front of it!

Start by getting your data right.
Synta is a _Taiwanese_ company, not a Chinese company. They do have a
manufacturing plant in China, and are already the largest manufacturer of
OEM optics in the world.

But since Synta has a manufacturing plant in _Mainland_ China - I
believe that must be what you meant, since Taiwan _is_ part of China,
although not being part of the People's Republic of China, and thus any
Synta manufacturing plant in Taiwan would be in China (just as a
manufacturing plant in Munich and a manufacturing plant in Dresden would
both have been in Germany even *before* the Berlin Wall came down) -
then the technology for making Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes *could*
sneak into Red China because of this.

Of course, SCTs have been around for enough years that the patents have
expired. Schmidt *himself* successfully kept his secret of how to make
correctors, but it has since become general knowledge:

http://www.quadibloc.com/science/opt02.htm

Also, cheap Maksutov telescopes are already being made in China. It's
true that cheap SCTs would be even cheaper - given that *labor* may be
cheap in China, but optical glass also uses raw materials... sand may be
pretty cheap, but *Barium* costs real money - but is the difference
really a big deal, particularly as Maksutovs are percieved as being
better quality?

John Savard

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All this time I thought the "C" stood for Quality.

John Savard wrote:
But since Synta has a manufacturing plant in _Mainland_ China - I
believe that must be what you meant, since Taiwan _is_ part of China,

That's a pretty misleading way to put it. Taiwan in no way considers
itself to be part of anything larger--at least, not at the present
moment. It would only consider the proposition of becoming part of
a larger China if the mainland ceases what Taiwan considers to be
unreasonable aggression.

The mainland, of course, does consider Taiwan to be part of it. But
it's not quite the plain factual matter your words suggest.

Brian Tung
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